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Powerful Nutritional Strategies for Effective Addiction Treatment & Sustained Recovery

Secure your seat early for the most transformative event in recovery nutrition!

Join us in 2026 for the Feed the Recovering Brain Summit — the only event dedicated to integrating brain-focused nutrition into addiction and mental health recovery.

FEED THE RECOVERING BRAIN 2026

The Missing Piece in Addiction Treatment is Finally Here!

 

You Know Something’s Missing

You’ve seen it countless times. Traditional treatment approaches that work… until they don’t. Clients who seem ready for recovery, only to relapse again. Programs that address behavior and psychology but leave the brain starving for what it actually needs to heal.

What if the missing piece isn’t another therapy model or medication protocol?

What if it’s as fundamental as feeding the brain the nutrients it needs to restore balance, reduce cravings, and support lasting recovery?

 

Cutting-Edge Topics

Dive into advanced strategies, including biochemical therapies and amino acid protocols, to address neurotransmitter imbalances and improve recovery outcomes

Learn from the Best

Hear from leading experts in addiction recovery, mental health nutrition, and brain science who are reshaping how we approach healing.

Practical, Real-World Tools

Leave with tools you can immediately use to transform your clients’ recovery journeys, from nutrient-dense supplements to easy dietary interventions.

Collaborative, Like-Minded Community

Connect with professionals who share your passion for brain-based recovery and build relationships that last far beyond the conference.

2025 Proved This Works

Last year, treatment professionals, nutritionists, and medical providers gathered to explore how nutritional intervention is revolutionizing addiction recovery. The results? Professionals are already transforming their practices—and their clients’ outcomes.

What Our Summit Attendees Loved

Where

Embassy Suites by Hilton Columbus Dublin Upper Metro Place, Dublin, OH or Virtually from Anywhere! Can’t make it live? All sessions will be recorded and available after the event.

When​

April 2026

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Why 2026 Will Be Even More Powerful

Building on last year’s success, we’re diving deeper into the specialized science that’s transforming recovery outcomes. This year features cutting-edge research on gut-brain connections, advanced lab testing protocols, and real-world implementation strategies from treatment providers who are successfully integrating nutrition into their programs right now.

Gut-Brain Science

Discover how specific bacteria like Clostridia impact recovery. Learn advanced lab testing protocols including stool analysis and organic acids testing to identify microbial imbalances affecting mental health.

Neurotransmitter Restoration

Master targeted amino acid protocols and biochemical interventions that address the root causes of cravings, mood instability, and cognitive dysfunction in early recovery.

Advanced Relapse Prevention

Address the nutritional factors behind relapse in complex cases: ADHD, brain injuries, trauma, genetic predispositions, and sugar addiction. Real solutions for real barriers.

Implementation Strategies

Learn from treatment providers already successfully integrating nutrition. Get step-by-step protocols for overcoming common barriers to pro-recovery eating in early recovery phases.

What You'll Master This Year:

  • Advanced Lab Testing Protocols including stool analysis and organic acids testing for microbial assessment
  • Gut-Brain Interventions targeting specific bacteria that support or hinder recovery
  • Complex Relapse Prevention for clients with ADHD, brain injuries, trauma history, and genetic predispositions
  • Sugar Addiction Recovery and overcoming barriers to pro-recovery eating patterns
  • Neurotransmitter Restoration through targeted amino acid and biochemical protocols
  • Real-World Program Integration from treatment providers successfully using these approaches
  • Early Recovery Nutrition strategies when food patterns are most unstable

“As a Registered Dietitian, I regularly counsel patients with complex nutritional needs — and now I’m confidently recommending amino acids as part of their care. After trying them myself, I experienced noticeable improvements in mood and energy.”

— Anna L., RDN

Early Bird Registration is Now Open

Join us at Embassy Suites by Hilton Columbus Dublin, OH

Join the movement that’s changing addiction, mental health nutrition from the inside out. The professionals who attended 2025 are already transforming their practices—don’t wait to be part of 2026’s evolution.

Expert-Level Programming for Advanced Practice

This year’s lineup features experienced practitioners and treatment providers who are actively integrating nutritional strategies into their mental health and addiction recovery support. You’ll learn from professionals who understand the complexity of co-occurring conditions and have developed practical approaches for challenging client presentations.

Our presenters bring hands-on experience in addressing multifactorial relapse scenarios, advanced gut microbiome assessment, and nutritional approaches for supporting clients with conditions like ADHD, traumatic brain injury, and genetic predispositions that complicate traditional recovery approaches.

This isn’t basic nutrition education. This is advanced, evidence-based professional development from practicing professionals who are incorporating these approaches into their daily work with clients.

2025 Was a Huge Success — And 2026 Will Be Even Bigger

The Feed the Recovering Brain 2025 brought together top experts in brain health and recovery nutrition. While our 2026 speaker lineup is still in the works, you can expect even more impactful sessions, powerful tools, and breakthrough insights.

Grab your Super Early Bird ticket now and be the first to experience what’s coming next!

Our Feed The Recovering Brain 2025 Speakers

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Christina Veselak, MS, LMFT, CN

Founder of Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition and Eating Protein Saves Lives, Inc

Christina T. Veselak is the founder and director of the Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition. She has been a licensed psychotherapist for over 30 years, and currently provides on-line Relapse Prevention Coaching and Mental Health Nutrition to a wide variety of clients.

Christina consults for supplement companies as well as IV detox programs and residential addiction treatment, helping them integrate this life-saving nutritional approach into their programs.

She is an experienced public speaker, and has presented at conferences and trainings around the country. Christina is also a founding member and former Executive Director of the Alliance for Addiction Solutions, a non-profit organization which promotes the use of nutritional and other natural modalities to support repair of the addicted brain.

Hyla Cass, M.D
Nationally-acclaimed Natural Health Expert, also known as "the drug-free psychiatrist", Author of 8 weeks to Vibrant Health, Natural High and others.
Richard Z. Cheng, M.D., Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, International Integrative Health Consultant
Michael Lewis MD
Michael Lewis, MD
Expert on nutritional interventions for brain health, particularly the prevention and rehabilitation of brain injury
Michael Joseph Ferguson
Michael Joseph Ferguson
Expert on nutritional interventions for brain health, particularly the prevention and rehabilitation of brain injury
Susan Kenney

Suze Kenney

Modern Kryptonite, Ancient Wisdom: Unlocking Your Body's Intelligence to Recover Vibrant Health

Dave Kenney

Dave Kenney

The Illusion of Addiction

Julia Ross

Julia Ross, M.A., N.N.T.S.

Best-selling Author. Mood & Craving Expert. Nutrient Therapy Pioneer

Jolene Park

Jolene Park

Founder, Gray-Area Drinkers

Matt Finch

Matt Finch

Recovery Coach, Certified Strategic Intervention Coach

Valsa Madhava, MD

Valsa Madhava, MD

The Benzo Taper Doct

Dr Michele Perron

Dr Michele Perron

Alcohol Moderation Coach | Counselor | Speaker

Val Prisecaru

Val Prisecaru MS, CN, LDN

Val Prisecaru has been working as a nutritionist and nutrigenomics consultant for the past 20 years.

Dr. Daniel S. Smith, D.C

Founder of Genesa, Inc.,

Jeff Jones, MA, LPC, CRNC1

Family Recovery Coach

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Ashley Jones

Nurse/Quality Assurance Manager

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Mikala Reznik

FEED THE RECOVERING BRAIN 2026

Why Nutrition is the Missing Link to Effective Treatment 

Traditional mental health and addiction treatment often overlook a critical factor—brain chemistry imbalance caused by nutrient deficiencies. When the brain isn’t properly nourished, people struggle with mood swings, cravings, anxiety, and relapse risk—even when they’re doing “all the right things.” Scientific research over the past 100 years, and continuing today, has proven over and over again which specific nutrients, available in good quality food, the brain actually requires to function optimally. It has also clearly demonstrated which psychiatric symptoms result from a deficiency of these nutrients. 

Most clients in early recovery are seriously deficient in many of these nutrients! These deficiencies are the underlying cause of many of the symptoms of depression, anxiety, insomnia and cravings our clients experience – and which often lead them to relapse. While medication can sometimes help to alleviate some of this distress, they don’t provide the brain with the nutrients necessary to repair itself, and optimally fuel a successful recovery journey. 

At the Feed the Recovering Brain Summit and through courses from the Academy for Addiction & Mental Health Nutrition, we teach how simple, targeted nutrition strategies can help restore brain function, reduce cravings, and support long-term emotional balance. And you don’t need to be a nutritionist to apply these principles!

Early Bird Registration is Now Open

Join us at Embassy Suites by Hilton Columbus Dublin, OH

Join the movement that’s changing addiction, mental health nutrition from the inside out. The professionals who attended 2025 are already transforming their practices—don’t wait to be part of 2026’s evolution.

Earn up to 18 CEUs when you attend this event.

B.E. Education Group, LLC.
1432 S. Lindenwood Drive
Olathe, KS 66062

B.E. Education Group, LLC is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the Kansas State Board of Nursing, Provider Number LT0258-0310.

B.E. Education Group, LLC is a pre-approved provider for Social Workers through the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board, KSBSRB Provider Number 14-002.

This course offering is approved for contact hours applicable for APRN, RN, or LPN relicensure.

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Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition

Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition

The Academy provides cutting-edge, in-depth, on-line and live education and consultation services for the purpose of thoroughly training mental health and addiction treatment professionals and volunteers in the skills necessary to identify and effectively address the biochemical aspects of client symptoms through nutrient interventions. 

We teach clinicians, treatment providers, and health/recovery coaches how to reduce relapse and improve the quality of recovery by using amino acid and nutrient therapy, along with food and diet, to effectively address the biochemical aspects of addiction and mood/behavioral disorders. Thus, we provide a stable foundation for the recovery journey. We also welcome anyone interested in learning this powerful, life-transforming information.

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Eating Protein Saves Lives

Educating both people in recovery and treatment providers that optimally feeding the recovering brain by eating protein throughout the day is crucial to reducing cravings, relapse and overdose deaths, as well as to supporting full engagement in a recovery journey. 

This Community Changes Everything

The most powerful part of Feed the Recovering Brain isn’t just the science—it’s the connections. You’ll be surrounded by professionals who understand that nutrition isn’t “alternative” medicine. It’s foundational medicine that’s been missing from mental health care for too long.

These are your people. The ones who see beyond traditional boundaries to find what actually works. The ones who are building the future of brain health and mental wellness, one properly nourished brain at a time.

More than just sessions: Share meals together with conference-provided lunch and an exclusive speaker dinner where you can dive deeper into conversations with the experts and fellow attendees. These informal moments often spark the most valuable connections and insights.

“The community was incredible. Being in a room with like-minded professionals — face to face — was energizing. It reignited my drive to keep building my practice and adding modalities that truly support recovery, wellness, and mental health.”

— Participant, LPC, CACIII

Early Bird Registration is Now Open

Join us at Embassy Suites by Hilton Columbus Dublin, OH

Join the movement that’s changing addiction, mental health nutrition from the inside out. The professionals who attended 2025 are already transforming their practices—don’t wait to be part of 2026’s evolution.